Hay Festival drops sponsor after celebrities including Charlotte Church withdraw

Hay Festival has suspended its sponsorship with an investment management firm “in light of claims raised by campaigners and intense pressure on artists to withdraw”.

Sad to say that I will be pulling out of Hay to support this campaign. Love the festival and the people that work in it, but this was the right decision for me.A spokesperson for Baillie Gifford said the suggestion it is a large investor in the occupied Palestinian territories is “seriously misleading”.

In another statement to social media, Church, 38, who is a pro-Palestinian campaigner, said she was boycotting and not attending the festival “in protest of the artwashing and greenwashing that is apparent in this sponsorship”.

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